Mechanism for producing cylindrical cotton bales.



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MEGHNISM EGR PRODUCING CYLINDHICAL COTTON BALES.

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M. SWENSON. MEGHANISM FOR PRUDUCING GYLINDHICAL COTTON BALES.

(Application led Oct. 14, 1895.)

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l bum I litre warns artnr Orrrcnm MAGNUS SVENSON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGN- MENTS, TO TI'IE AMERICAN COTTON COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

MECHANHS FOR PROUCING CYLINDRBCAL COTTON BALIETS..

SPECFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 662,885, dated November 27, 19010.

Application filed October 14,1895Y Serial No. 565,556. (No model.)

T0 all whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, MAeNUs SWENsoN, of Chicago, Illinois, have invented certain Improvements in Mechanism for Producing Cylindrical Cotton Bales, of which the following is a specification.

In a rotary cotton-press producing cylindrical bales the cotton from a multiplicity of gins is fed to a condenser and therefrom delivered in the form of a bat which is wound under pressure upon a rotating core. When a cylinder of the required diameter is produced, it is necessary to stop the cotton-gins and condenser and keep them idle While the inished bale is being removed and the machine readjusted for the production of another bale, after which the gine and condenser are again started in motion. This repeated stopping and starting of the bat-forming apparatus is especially objectionable, because the formation oi a symmetrical bat requires that the gins and condenser shall run steadily and uninterruptedly, while the production of a uniformly-compressed and symmetrically-shaped bale is dependent upon the proper formation of the bat of which the bale is composed.

The object of the present invention is to overcome the difficulties heretofore existing and to provide forV the baling of a bat delivered continuously from bat-forming apparatus running uninterruptedly. Y In my application for Letters Patent filed April 11, 1895, Serial No. 545,303, I describe and generically claim an apparatus having this object in View and comprising two sets of rotary cottonpressing appliances in combination with a single bat-forming apparatus feeding a continuous sheet or bat alternately to said appliances to permit a continuous operation to be carried out. My present invention comprises improvements in apparatus of this type. The two sets of rotary cotton-pressing appliances may be incorporated in a single machine or may be arranged in two independent machines. As in either case the said two sets of appliances arranged in suitable relation to the condenser occupy differentparts of the same plane, one in advance of the other, they may be said to constitute a tandem cotton-press.

In the accompanying drawings the inven-y tion is rillustrated in connection with two rotary cotton-presses arranged tandem fashion in alinement with a suitably-elevated condenser adapted to discharge the bat directly upon the inclined feed-chute of the nearer press orupon an endless carrier which may be adjusted to receive the bat and by which the bat is conducted forward and discharged upon the feed-chute of the more distant press. The rotary cotton-presses selected for illustrating the present invention are of the type of those shown in my patent dated November 15,1898, No. 614,186, and do not herein need description in detail.

The drawings are as follows:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the presses, the condenser, and the feeding devices. Fig. 2 is a top View of thc same; Fig. 3, a detached View illustrating the conveying-belt withdrawn from the condenser to permit the sheet or bat therefrom to pass down to the first press; and Fig. 4, a similar View showing the conveying-belt moved over to intercept the sheet or bat to cause it to pass on said conveying-belt toward the second press.

The drawings represent two rotary cottonpresses A and B and a condenser C in common alinement and a portion of the main trunk D, through which cotton from. the gins is blown into the condenser. As anysuitable form of cotton-gin may be employed and as cotton-gills are Well known, it is not necessary to herein show or describe them. As condensers are also well known, it is sufficient to say that the bat Dl is formed by the usual operation of bat-forming apparatus embracing a multiplicity of gins and is delivered from the condenser in suitable position to be discharged either upon the inclined feed-chute A' of the press A or upon the extensible endless carrier E, which may be adjusted to receive the bat and which when so adjusted receives and conducts the bat formed and discharges it upon the inclined feed-chute B' of the press B. The endless carrier E is stretched around a power-driven roller e, rotating in fixed bearings, and around the idlerroller e', provided with bearings in the horizontally-sliding bearing-blocks f g, on which are also erected bearings for the transverse IOO shaft h, to the opposite ends of which are affixed the pinions f g/, adapted to engage the fixed horizontal racks f2 g2. The horizontal shaft h is provided with a crank h', by means of which the shaft may be turned and the horizontal sliding bearing-blocksfg thus moved toward or from the condenser. When the bat is being fed to the chute A', the sliding bearing-blocksfand g are Withdrawn to the positions in which they are shown in Fig. 3, in which adequate clearance is afforded for the bat D. When occasion arises for shifting the feed, the shaft h is turned in the proper direction to move the sliding blocks toward the condenser and to thus move the adjacent bight of the carrier E into the position in which it is represented in Fig. 4E. At the same time by means of the bar D2, which is manually inserted between the bat and the lower roller C of the condenser C, the bat is broken and lifted onto the top of the carrier E and is thereupon moved forward in the direction of the arrow E' and discharged from the opposite bight of the carrier upon the feed-chute B' of the press B. Similarly when sufficient bat has been delivered to form a bale in the press B the sliding bearing-blocks f and g are Withdrawn, thus restoring the parts to the positions in which they are shown in Fig. 3, and the bat is then pressed downward and broken, so that it will fall upon the feed-ch u te A as before. When the carrier is The operation of thus shiftceases ing the bat so that it may be fed either to the press A or the press B can be performed easily and quickly without affording opportunity for any excessive accumulation of the bat, and hence the gins and condenser may run uninterruptedly. Various devices for thus shifting the feed will doubtless present themselves to those skilled in the art, and it is therefore to be understood that the present invention is not limited to the precise arrangement of devices shown, but is present in any combination embracing a condenser, two sets of rotary cotton-pressing appliances, with a feed-chute for directing the bat from the condenser to one of said appliances, and an adjustable conveyer for directing the hat delivered from the condenser to the other of said appliances.

What is claimed as the invention isL l. The combination, as herein set forth, of a condenser with two sets of rotary cottonpressing appliances arranged tandem fashion, an inclined feed-chute for receiving the bat directly from the condenser and delivering it to one of the said rotary cotton-pressing appliances and an adjustable conveyer for intercepting the bat and conducting it forward and delivering it to the other of said rotary cotton-pressing appliances.

2. The combination, as herein set forth, of the two inclined feed-chutes A' and B and two sets of rotary cotton-pressing appliances, with the condenser C, and the adjustable endless carrierE, as and for the purpose set forth.

MAGNUS SWENSON.

Witnesses:

A. M. JoNEs, E. GATTERER. 

